2+ hour, 18+ min ago  (511+ words) The six books shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, announced on March 31, span the globe and the better part of a century, offering readers a tour of lives shaped by colonialism, dictatorship, and" patriarchy. The centrality of translation to the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1164+ words) He texted back. He showed up. He remembered your coffee order. And yet, it still didn't feel like enough. Perhaps it is in this space'this in-between, between what has been done and what has been felt'that the concept of the…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (723+ words) We are living in a time when the world feels both unbearably loud and eerily silent. Loud with the language of war'missiles, mandates, mobilisations'and silent in the spaces where empathy once echoed. Cities are reduced to statistics before they are…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1325+ words) {"0":"Khasab port missile attack, Indian seafarers survive Khasab port missile attack, Oman, Oman missile attack, west asia war, Israel-US-Iran war, Iran conflict, west asia conflict, iran and israel war, iran and israel, us israel war, war in iran, iran us,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1351+ words) My heart has fallen in love with the freedom of fakiri. The song is playing because my younger disciple Haridashv Malhotra has made it part of his morning ritual. Every day he sits, breathes, and lets Kabir travel through Abida's…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (589+ words) Walk into any university philosophy department, and the required reading list includes Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein. The canon is a fortress, and for centuries, its gates remained firmly closed to women. This certainly was not because they were not thinking,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (395+ words) The 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist, announced Wednesday, features two authors of Indian heritage: Manchester-based'Sheena Kalayil and New York-based Megha Majumdar. The two authors join a longlist that includes 14 other titles, with nine coming from independent publishers and seven from…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (346+ words) At a time when screens compete for attention and algorithms curate choices, the inaugural Harsha Parekh Librarian Awards (HPLA) on Saturday put the spotlight on librarians, who are regarded as the "custodians" of reading. Instituted by the HT Parekh Foundation,…...

1+ mon, 3+ hour ago  (406+ words) In Vigil, George Saunders delivers a metaphysical satire on climate denial, moral vanity and the limits of absolution. But the novel ends up circling its central dilemma without truly deepening it At the heart of Vigil, George Saunders's slim second…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (603+ words) Padma Viswanathan, the Canadian-American writer and translator of Indian origin, has been longlisted for the prestigious International Booker Prize 2026 for her English translation of Brazilian author Ana Paula Maia's novel On Earth As It Is Beneath. Viswanathan, whose family roots…...